The Korean Peninsula is mountainous, especially on the back of North Korea, with steep mountains one after another, and the mountains are full of patches of giant trees that have been in the sky for thousands of years. Occasionally, you can see steep granite cliffs cascading down from a mountain range one or two kilometers high.

If you look at it from the air or walk in the mountains and seashores, the north and the north of Korea seem to be very beautiful and even beautiful and heartbreaking. Dangerous peaks, cypresses, blue skies. The sea on both sides of the peninsula is as far as the eye can see...... However, all this, for the army, especially one fighting in this terrain, is by no means a good place, one might even say a nightmare.

Here, the army could not cross the ridge where there was no way out, maintain a solid front, and even maintain contact with each other. Throughout the area, roads are winding and widely spaced apart. Most of the trails in the mountains are small paths, and people and livestock can only pass through them one by one. The forests here provide excellent shade for the defenders.

Countless narrow valleys, headache-inducing trails, and knife-edge mountains make it difficult for slightly larger modern armies afraid to enter the unworkable mountains.

Although North Korea did not have automobiles, and its artillery was mainly light mountain artillery and mortars, the soldiers were lightly equipped with rifles, 200 rounds of ammunition and 4 grenades, although they were accustomed to all kinds of extremely bad weather, they were also accustomed to starvation and fighting in the most difficult conditions.

But in such a place, any unit will encounter situations that no one had expected at first, and many of them may not even have imagined, and the attacking troops will not know much about the terrain of northern Korea, but they will not be much better, and when the officers are accustomed to using the map, they will find that the map is full of errors.

In the brown forest on the mountain, with a layer of fallen leaves, a team of cavalry on horseback, from time to time to look at the environment in front of them, riding on the horse Mao Zhiheng's hands held the reins, the mountain wind whistled over the treetops of the trees, from the war horse, he looked at the slope in front of him, the slope of the hillside is not large, and then down is very steep, in the steep mountain, a winding mountain road through the valley, a small river in the valley, glowing white in the bright sunshine.

Riding a horse and walking a few steps forward, looking at the steep slope of at least 80 degrees, his brows were furrowed, Mao Zhiheng glanced at the squeaky North Korean mountain man beside him, if he had changed his temper, maybe he would have cut him down with a knife, but looking at his pointing appearance, he shouted behind him.

"Sergeant Commander Li, call Translator Liang over!"

After a while, a short pony came from behind, and on the back of the horse sat Liang Jiacheng, a forty-year-old Northeast farmer dressed as a farmer, with a riding gun on his back, leather leggings on his small feet, and a stiff horse in both hands.

Half a month ago, several big-headed soldiers broke into his medicine store and directly handed him a letter, which was a conscription letter, and then whether he wanted to or not, he was put in the barracks and became a North Korean translator of the 7th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division, enjoying the treatment of a sergeant with a monthly salary of 15 yuan.

"Ask him, how did you lead the way, where is Wulidong?"

When Mao Zhiheng saw the translation, he said to him. Liang Jiacheng hurriedly asked in Korean, and the Korean mountain farmer who led the way pointed to the front and said something before he turned back to the chief and said.

"Sir, he said, this is Wulidong!"

While Liang Jiacheng spoke, the ragged North Korean was bowed down and smiled humbly.

"Dog, Goryeo stick!"

Spit out the grass chewing in his mouth, Mao Zhiheng stared at the North Korean with a sharp gaze, and then cast his eyes on the hillside in front of him, from entering North Korea, at first, he still wanted to walk according to the map of North Korea with Russian slogans, but after walking for two days, he almost didn't drive the map crazy, and immediately gave up the idea of continuing to use the map, and changed to a North Korean guide.

The guide showed him the nearest path to Ooli-dong, but the problem was ...... In front of me, the slope of more than 80 degrees is almost more than 100 meters, and people can go down with ropes, but horses can't go down.

"Or take a detour?"

This thought was only a fleeting thought, and the order he received was very simple, that is, to cooperate with the main force of the 1st Cavalry Regiment to severely damage or annihilate the main force of the 2nd Reserve Division that wanted to be reinforced, so as to ensure that the main force of the regiment could march unhindered in the north of Korea, and his task was to rush to Wulidong to intercept the Yue army.

Now that he has arrived, there may not be enough time for him to get around this steep mountain. Spreading out the unreliable map on horseback, he looked at it carefully, and as he looked at it, the old North Korean man was looking at the Chinese general from behind, and he was still panting.

"General......

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the translator.

"The area around this pass is very flat, and if you go a mile to the west, the terrain there suddenly sinks in, and there is a very deep canyon, like a ......."

As he spoke, he picked up the branch and gestured.

While Leung Ka-shing was translating, Mao Zhiheng looked down at the terrain drawn by the old man, which was an 'L'-shaped canyon.

“…… As long as the general sets up a large army here, one man will be the pass, and ten thousand people will not be opened! ”

After that, the old man looked at the Chinese general on the horse with some expectation, he didn't like Yue himself, so he would lead the way for Zhong [***], and naturally hoped that these Zhong [***] would defeat Yu himself.

Listening to the interpreter's explanation, Mao Zhiheng rode his horse and walked dozens of meters to the west, and then at the edge of the hillside, he took out the telescope from the telescope box, adjusted the focus, and the scene in the eyepiece became clear, just as he said, there was a canyon about less than 100 meters wide a few hundred meters away, and after connecting the canyon pass with this side, he finally showed some smiles on his face, and his vision was very broad, if a company and machine gun platoon were placed there, he could completely control the canyon within two kilometers.

"Company commander, you immediately take a machine gun platoon and control the commanding heights at the mouth of the gorge,...... Machine gun second platoon and second company ......"

After a while, one after another orders spit out from Mao Zhiheng's mouth, and when he gave the order, he kept pointing to the direction where the troops were building a position, that is, to block the enemy, then fight a positional defensive battle!

The cavalry that had originally gathered in the forest immediately dispersed as the order was given, and each of them walked towards the defensive position commanded by the commander under the leadership of the commander.

"When this battle is over, Lao Tzu will sue the Nanjing War Department, and he will have to bring down that group of bastards from the Surveying and Mapping Department!"

After the troops carried out the order, Mao Zhiheng rubbed the map and scolded hatefully, this dog said that the map is not shallow, if he didn't believe in this map, he would not have walked the wrong road for two days, the road found on the map often does not actually exist, or it is a small road that the cavalry team cannot pass at all, fortunately he immediately decided to use the North Korean guide, otherwise he will not arrive on time, and it will be light to go to the military court after the war, and he may directly enforce battlefield discipline because of the loss of the fighter plane.

When Mao Zhiheng secretly screamed in his heart that he was lucky, he didn't know that the second regiment he cooperated with would still be spinning among the mountains and mountains of the northern Xianjing Province, and he was not the only one who encountered map problems, after all, these maps were just simple maps drawn by Russian explorers and Huai Jun periods, and for the guards who were accustomed to relying on combat maps, wrong maps would only bring fatal mistakes.

The mountainous terrain of the northern part of Korea brought unexpected difficulties to the troops, even for the Guards Army Air Corps flying in the sky, the complex mountainous terrain caused some problems, and in the absence of accurate military topographic maps, the land was extremely fair for infantry and aviation.

The bird-like "Eagle Eye" reconnaissance plane was flying over the mountainous area, and the cloudless blue sky was definitely a good weather suitable for flying, but at this time, for Li Qinyun, who was piloting the plane, flying in the blue sky did not feel the pleasure of Ping Yue at all, and he was lost!

"I said, Brother Qin, are you sure we're going in the right direction?"

Mu Shaoqiu, who was sitting back, was still concentrating on searching for suspicious targets on the ground while speaking.

After taking off from the field airfield on the Sino-DPRK border, the six "Hawkeye" reconnaissance planes in the air searched for the main force of the Syrian army according to their routes, but after flying in the air for more than three hours, they still failed to find the Syrian army mentioned in the intelligence.

"You say, will we go wrong from the beginning?"

This will Li Qinyun also become bottomless, the map full of mistakes, the trouble to the air team is not once or twice, although they have done navigation calibration, but almost every day there is a formation lost "impossible,"

Mu Shaoqiu immediately asserted that he was an observer, a machine gunner, and also a navigator, and half of the responsibility for the trek was on him.

"There are mistakes everywhere on this map, but the squadron leader has also corrected them more than a dozen times, and the landmarks alone have confirmed forty-three, I will never point the wrong way!"

Although he said this, as he spoke, he once again took out the map board and began to reorient himself with a compass, a ruler, and a quadrant.

At this moment, Li Qinyun saw the No. 5 plane on the left flank shake its wings, and then flew towards the southwest.

"No. 5 has found a target, remember what we said?"

As soon as Li Qinyun's words fell, Mu Shaoqiu, who was originally doing route correction, immediately put away the map board and took out the light machine gun tied with a cloth belt from the cockpit.

"Today, we're going to greet these people!"

After the gun mount tip was inserted, the 100 flat-top drum was loaded with a machine gun, and after the ring sight was inserted, Mu Shaoqiu stood up and held the machine gun, at this time his only safety guarantee was the two waist buckles around his waist, when he was preparing, the No. 5 plane that had originally flown out of the formation flew back again, within the visual range, the No. 5 plane first shook its wings to the left and right, and then made a beautiful dive circle, which was a signal to find the enemy.

Between the passes of the cave mountain, a blue marching column marched at a slow pace. But the tranquil scenery of the fields on the side set off the dragon, which is incongruous. From time to time, a soldier on horseback would run back from the front, reporting something to the officers in the ranks, who were also on horseback.

From time to time, the blue-blue dragon had to give way to some carts or mules and horses, and the formation became chaotic, and this confusion somewhat made the column seem a little incongruous, and most of the soldiers with rifles on the marching line had relaxed smiles on their faces.

Although those thirty or forty-year-old mobilized soldiers carried guns and marched, they exchanged topics such as women from time to time, and occasional bursts of laughter came from the column, and the squad leaders and squadron leaders also laughed along with the laughter, and the march seemed to be like an outing for cherry blossom viewing.

"Your Excellency the division commander, look at our soldiers, they are very relaxed, it seems that we will definitely be able to defeat the [***]!"

Matsumoto River, who was riding on a horse, looked at the relaxed soldiers in the marching column, turned to Mami Motodo beside him and said with a smile, he used to be a squadron leader during the Qing War, and he didn't know much about those [***], so he would be as relaxed as a soldier.

"We are not a tired army with insufficient ammunition, and as long as we can hold them back for a few days, a steady stream of troops will go to North Korea, and then the end of the Chinese will come!"

When he said everything so easily, Mami Motomichi, who was the commander of the division, didn't say anything, he just glanced into the air.

"Since we left Chengneidong, the planes of the Chinese army have been in the air at least three times a day, and we have always marched under their eyes, and this way, there are passes, canyons everywhere, you and I know that the cavalry of the Chinese has crossed the Tumen River, if they set up ambushes along the way!"

Looking up at the sky, Mami Hondo's face was a little worried, the Chinese occupation of Korea was unacceptable to the General Staff, and after the transfer of the 2nd Reserve Division, the Tumen River, which had holes in the defensive line, could still stop the Lu army? If Lu's army took the opportunity to attack Korea, Lucia would be far more of a threat to Yuben than the Chinese.

"This war was a mistake from the beginning, the contradiction between the empire and China is the contradiction between the rising national strength of the empire and the awakening of the Chinese nation, we look at China with the old eyes, it is bound to lead to the expansion of contradictions, and eventually force the Chinese to adopt the way of war, and now the Chinese in the two deadliest places, fiercely stabbed Yue Ben in the heart, it can be said that once the Lu Guoren intervene in Korea, then Yu Ben will be forced to accept the harsh peace conditions put forward by China!"

Before receiving the order to leave, he negotiated with Akinosuke Nagashishi, chief of staff of the Third Reserve Division, and from time to time appeared in his mind, the current war in Korea is directly related to the national fortunes of the Second Reserve Division in the next few decades, whether the Second Reserve Division can block the Chinese army, and whether the Third Reserve Division can hold the defense line of the Tumen River directly determines whether or not the Second Reserve Division will actually lose the war.

"Xiao Shijun, you must guard there!"

"Airplane!"

When Mami Hondo turned his head to look towards the Tumen River, a few screams suddenly came from the marching column, and the Yue army in the column looked towards the northeast sky, and several black spots appeared in the sky.

It's a Chinese plane!

Seeing that there was no chaos in the aircraft column, they just looked at the planes in the air with envy, and said, "When will Ben be able to make airplanes!"

If Ben didn't own the air force, then ...... When this thought came to his mind in the heart of Mami Motodao, he on horseback saw that the black dots were becoming clearer and clearer, they were six planes, and they seemed to be lowering the bottom altitude, and those planes were lining up in a column above the valley in turn when they descended the bottom altitude.

"What are they doing here?"

The formation and actions that were completely different from the past made a trace of doubt welling up in the heart of the true beauty of the Tao. At this time, when the marching army saw the plane descending to the bottom altitude, they involuntarily slowed down, and even stopped, looking up at the "robot bird" in the air.

"Ready ......"

After lowering the bottom of the plane to an altitude of 500 meters, Li Qinyun's voice was about to come out, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw the bomb racks on the fuselage that Mu Shaoqiu had released, and the two 120-mm mortar shells on the left and right sides of the fuselage that had been pulled out of the safety pins.

Is that...... Looking at the black dots dropped by the plane, the valley stopped to watch the plane prepare to describe the "robot bird" to the uninformed people in the future, most of them had a look of surprise on their faces, they had seen the Chinese's plane more than once, but this was the first time that something was dropped on the plane.

"Bomb dropping!"

Thinking so in his heart, Mu Shaoqiu once again freed the ties of the two mortars, each time there was an interval of one second, and the plane only carried a total of 6 mortar shells, although as early as during the Liberation Campaign, the aviation team had dropped grenades in the capital, but it was the first time to throw "aerial bombs" like this.

At the end of the third bomb drop, the left wing of the plane, which had been flying flat, tilted slightly downward, and the back-seat observer once again raised the machine gun.

"Bomb!"

I don't know who looked at the empty spots in the air and shouted first, and before the soldiers who had stopped to watch the robot birds could react, they saw several black spots falling on the hillside between the columns or next to the columns, and the violent explosions exploded almost directly in the completely uncovered columns, and the steel fragments were like sickles cutting grass, blowing up those "viewing" soldiers.

In the successive explosions, bullets whistled like windy treetops, and the war horse was frightened in the explosion, and Matsumoto River fell off his horse, saving his life.

Before Matsumoto Kawa, who had fallen from his horse, could stand up, he saw that at the moment when the wind whistled, the division commander had fallen from his horse and was lying in the grass by the roadside, blood was constantly gushing from his chest, and in the explosion and strafing, the column fell into chaos, and the running soldier was broken by a bullet in the neck, and blood sprayed out like a mist from the broken neck.

"Old son, this fucking ......"

Mu Shaoqiu, who was constantly aiming at the strafing army running in the valley, howled excitedly, it felt like ...... Well, just like hunting in the woods in the past, the only difference is that the hunter is in the sky!

(To be continued)